Probably not, but 6 whole months after PSFK’s Piers Fawkes interviewed Engadget’s Peter Rojas in TeaNY cafe in L.E.S., the TeaNY cafe has closed down yet Peter has not only become a millionaire but he has also had his face planted on the front cover of New York Magazine. Why? New York Mag’s got an issue about how great blogs are etc. As if you guys need to know….
New Yorker’s Blogs To Riches Story
Peter Rojas Interviewed By PSFK (IF!)
NYer: Linkology: How the 50 Most Popular Blogs Are Related
NYer: The Early Years: A Timeline of Blogging
NYer: Five Cool Blogs to Check Out Now
NYer: Meet the Bloggers
NYer: The Long Tail Theory: Why B-list Blogs Can Make It, Too
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As long as the blogosphere sets it’s own structure there will be a self-reflexive self-referential community. It won’t make sense or be understood by the mainstream in any aspect other than tourism. The Monetizing of the blogosphere will bring a different kind of order. The public relations mentioned in the article will not only become essential, it will become governing.
February 17th, 2006 at 11:16 am